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Creating competition

This week, the stranglehold that high street banks have over key bank services – like current accounts, small business lending, and mortgages – came back...

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Government as ‘shop steward’

Last week I posted the first blog in a short series on what a new Department for Economic Reform might look to do and how. Below is the next...

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The true cost of the cap

The benefit cap statistics released last week provoked predictable reactions – finding 33,000 households were subject to the cap led the Daily Mail to label...

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Heads up: Bitcoin

Vires in Numeris – ‘Strength in Numbers’ – is the motto printed on the back of  a minted Bitcoin: a decentralised peer-to-peer digital crypto-currency. It...

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Irrational Optimists

Since the economic downturn, the vast majority of Britons have been facing a cost of living crisis. This report looks at how the UK’s middle...

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Service Generation

We know that youth social action – practical action in the service of others – can have tremendous benefits for the young people taking part...

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New Political Actors in Europe

Across Europe, there has been rapid growth of left-wing, anti-capitalist social and political movements that criticise the establishment and use social media to organise and...

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Health in Austerity

The NHS recently reached its 65th birthday, but it is not settling down into its golden years with ease. Instead, it is faced with a...

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Generation Strains

It is no secret that public support for the UK’s welfare state is in long-term decline. Generation Strains provides the definitive analysis of this phenomenon....